Ten Labour MPs – including five frontbenchers – have vowed to promote the policies of Extinction Rebellion, it emerged last night.
They signed a pledge of allegiance with the eco-activist group, including promising to support and vote for legislation to make the UK net zero by 2025.
It is feared this would destroy swathes of British industry, cost millions of jobs and even cause the lights to go out.
The pact was signed ahead of the 2019 election, a year after Extinction Rebellion launched its campaign of direct action by blocking bridges and roads.
Remarks that year from Labour’s climate change chief, Ed Miliband, have also emerged in which he praised XR for its ‘exciting’ activism and called for it to be ‘sustained’ and ‘deepened’.
